The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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